Elinor was born in Brooklyn, N.Y., on May 21, 1918, the second daughter of Ralph and Caroline (Haskell) Brown.

She graduated from Scudder School of Business in New York City and worked as an executive secretary for Standard Oil Company, once the largest oil refiner in the world.

She also worked for Kaiser-Hughes Aircraft in California; a partnership between infamous aviator/businessman Howard Hughes and shipbuilder Henry J. Kaiser, who teamed up briefly in the 1940s to build the “Spruce Goose,” known officially as the Hughes H-4 Hercules, the largest flying boat every built.

During World War II, Elinor joined the American Red Cross Military Welfare Service and was stationed in England as a "Doughnut Dolly," working on a clubmobile providing doughnuts, coffee and news from home to the American GI's.

While on a hospital sunshine visit there, she met patient Lt. Kenneth E. Schlosser. The couple married in 1946. She later married William Jordan in 1975.

Elinor worked for Union Bank and Trust Co. and Warner, Norcross & Judd law firm in Grand Rapids, her home of 63 years. She also owned and operated her own greenhouse and flower/plant business.

She was a member of Trinity United Methodist Church, R.S.V.P. and past president of ABWA. She participated in her church's Christ Care group and sang and acted with the Curtain Time Players and a seniors improv troupe well into her 80s.

She is survived by her children David Schlosser of Grand Junction, Colo., and Roberta Santoni of Iron Mountain; six grandchildren: Mario Santoni, Anthony Santoni, Ami Schlosser-Engelhart, Alexa Schlosser, and Sean and David Gill; ten great grandchildren, cousins, nephews and nieces.

Elinor was preceded in death by husbands Kenneth and William, son Paul, sister Elizabeth Moyer, and brother Edmund F. Brown.

A memorial will be held in Grand Rapids in the spring. Interment will be in Graceland Memorial Park in Grand Rapids.